WHITE COUNTY, TN - WILLS - MARIAH PRATER Will - 23 Oct 1900 ==================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or for presentation by other persons or organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for purposes other than stated above must obtain the written consent of the file contributor. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Tamie Harding ==================================================================== WHITE COUNTY, TENNESSEE COUNTY COURT CLERK'S OFFICE SETTLEMENTS & WILLS VOL H; Oct 1894 - Oct 1914 MARIAH PRATER Will Page 197 I MARIAH PRATER being of sound mind and disparing memory do make and publish this my last will and testament revoking all other wills by me at any other time made. First, I will and bequeathe that after my death all of my just debts be paid. Second I will and bequeathe to MIRANDA SIMMONS evry thing I may die siezed and possessed of consisting of real estate lying and being in the 11th district of White County Tennepee being the same farm on which I lived before I moved to JOE McCANN at Bonair and bounded as follows on the North by METCALF on the south by GEER on the East by METCALF on the west by __?AINCK now BRADLEY containing sixteen acres. Also to MIRANDA SIMMONS all the ______? and all my household and kitchen furniture. In fact I desire that MIRANDA SIMMONS shall have evry thing I may be seized and possessed of. Hindly I nominate and appoint N B SIMMONS my executor to this my last will and testament to carry out the o____, and he will not be required to give bond this 23rd day of October 1900 MARIAH PRATER Signed sealed and delivered in our presence and now satisfied the testater at the time of signing same was of sound and desparing memory and perfectly capable of understanding this 23rd October 1900 C C WILSON C D RANDOLPH